calloc v/s malloc and time efficiency

Question

I\'ve read with interest the post C difference between malloc and calloc. I\'m using malloc in my code and would like to know what difference I\'ll have using calloc instead.

Answer 1

malloc differ by calloc by two reason

1. malloc takes one argument whereas calloc takes two argument

2. malloc is faster than calloc reason is that malloc processed single dimensional array to pointer format whereas calloc takes double dimensional array and before processed it converts to single dimensional array then to pointer format.

I think that, that's why malloc processing faster as compared to calloc